(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Top Comments: Open Thread edition [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2025-08-28 An open thread for all to participate in, after-the-jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and .. well, perhaps even humorous. But they are more meaningful if they're well-known ... which is where you come in (especially in diaries/stories receiving little attention). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send your nominations to our KosMail message board nby 9:30 PM Eastern. Please indicate (a) why you liked the comment, and (b) your Dkos user name (to properly credit you) as well as a link to the comment itself. Super-hectic week for me; unable to come up with anything original (or even one of my periodic updates). I’m not killing time, I’m stalling for it. So have-at-it, dear readers. Now, on to Top Comments (and a Top Photo) : From Puddytat (highlighting what my colleague Tara wrote last night). In the diary by annieli about jury nullification — Gareth started it and then the pile-on was inevitable .… be sure to swallow anything you have in your mouth before reading (your screen will thank you). The diary title is hilarious, too: my screen is happy I didn't have anything in my mouth at the time. From inkstainedwretch: In the front-page diary about the refusal of the CDC director to go quietly — Makemnoiga tells it like it is: the REAL enemies of the state are the repulsive Republican repressive regressive reprobates. Highlighted by Uncanny Valley: And from Ed Tracey, your faithful correspondent this evening ........ In the diary by Dan K about the resignation of a director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases — charging the new regime with seeking to hurt, not help people — Dogs are fuzzy noted a recent account of a coalition of Northeastern blue state health officials to form a new regional working group to counteract the efforts of RFK Jr. And lastly: yesterday's Top Mojo - mega-mojo to the intrepid mik ...... who rescued this feature from oblivion: [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/28/2340202/-Top-Comments-Open-Thread-edition?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/